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    creeklife.com

    links
    accounts

    User with apparent COI adding link into large number of articles. IP has been blocked twice for failing to discuss the links. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment: After the second block, the user began to engage in the requested discussions at WT:OREGON#Watershed Spam? (or valuable E.L.?) ... although as the links go beyond that one state, the discussion may need to be moved to WP:ELN. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:10, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Spam notifications regarding educationupdate.com

    Articles citing educationupdate.com are being tagged for citing a blacklisted domain. From Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/educationupdate.com, I infer that the issue is that in 2010 a sockpuppet user added many links to a particular topic or item published on that website. I don't see any reason why the entire website of the newspaper Education Update should be treated as a blacklisted domain. --Orlady (talk) 15:30, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    See m:Talk:Spam blacklist#educationupdate.com. MER-C 13:33, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Alternate way of locating https entries which don't show up

    This has been an issue for several years now - that Special:LinkSearch doesn't seem to work for locating https links in articles. Has anyone located an alternate method to locate these? Alternately, does anyone know if this issue has this ever been addressed at WP:VP/T? I tried doing an archive search, but couldn't locate a prior discussion on it. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:35, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Special:Linksearch/https://*.example.com. My tool already supports https in bulk and it is trivial to search all protocols on one wiki (yes, that means I will do it... tomorrow). MER-C 13:19, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. I noticed that Creeklife report I made earlier was using primarilly https, so wasn't showing via the default search link in the {{LinkSummary}} template. It looks like they all show correctly via Special:Linksearch/https://*.creeklife.com. Thanks again. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:04, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    [1]. Let me know if there are any bugs. MER-C 13:30, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Looks good to me; thanks for incorporating it into your search. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:28, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Possible scamming

    Twillisjr (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · Spamcheck · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) — User is currently soliciting "donations" on user page via an email address.    DKqwerty    22:27, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Not spam per se, but closest appropriate board in my opinion. Please direct me elsewhere if needed.

    Email Address is not associated with anything "donating" related. Remarks are to consider donations to a noble cause, via their website. Twillisjr (talk) 23:20, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    This doesn't really fit this board, although I can understand why you brought it here.
    For disputed user page content, Wikipedia:User_page#Handling inappropriate content suggests first discussing it on the user's own talk page. If agreement on the nature of the material cannot be reached and resolved, then if no speedy deletion criterion applies, the next step would be taking it to Miscellany for deletion for community discussion. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:04, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Gottcha. Will do in future if required. Happy editing.    DKqwerty    00:26, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Resolved

    — User clarified wordage.    DKqwerty    00:25, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    color-book.org

    links
    accounts
    Blocked Robert Von Higgs for spamming after last morning; the two 89.* addresses were both active today, 62.* dates back to last year. IPs geolocate to the region where the site's domain is registered. If any spamming continues, will add to blacklist. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    The following page looks like spam, it has a very brief description of its content and a link to a parked domain.

    https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A1logo_de_moda

    --Dodajob (talk) 12:42, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    This is the English Wikipedia; you're reporting something on the Portuguese Wikipedia. Other than being part of the same project, the Wikis are operated independently of each other. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:04, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]


    indianboxofficeonline.com and ibodatabase.com

    The user is almost exclusively concerned with cite-spamming the above two websites (and possibly others also under his control). According to the WHOIS information for the domains, and to the "About us" sections of the websites, the two websites are operated by someone whose name matches the Wikipedia user name. The user has been repeatedly warned about spamming (and other disruptive editing) but his only response has been to blank the warnings and continue the spamming.

    (I've unarchived this report as it still needs actioning. Is there an automated tool which can remove the existing spam links?) Psychonaut (talk) 08:57, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    The editor definitely has a conflict of interest and has not only been spamming his work, he's been removing competitor's work as well. I recommend a block. --Ronz (talk) 15:34, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Support for block, the user cannot stand other than this site. He claims him to be a reviewer for their site. Sohambanerjee1998 17:28, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Support block, now that you're proposed it. I don't see any productive contributions. —Psychonaut (talk) 08:51, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm unable to access indianboxofficeonline.com . It appears it is the old domain name for ibodatabase.com . Can someone confirm.

    Looks like a group blog. Not sure why it would belong in any article. --Ronz (talk) 19:27, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Yes, the site recently went down, though the domain is still registered, and there are still lots of links to it from Wikipedia. I included it in the report for these reasons and to demonstrate that the same person is operating both domains and the spam campaign. —Psychonaut (talk) 08:49, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Spam on Talk pages

    I'm new to this. What's the best thing to do about obvious spam on articles' Talk pages? Should I report it in exactly the same way as spam in an article? For instance, Talk:Data_quality_control. Zinios (talk) 08:29, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Remove, blank or revert as appropriate, then deal with the user in the usual manner. MER-C 11:11, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, I had a go at it, hope this was right. Zinios (talk) 16:43, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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